AcademicIntegritySeminar.com

Welcome to AcademicIntegritySeminar.com. This website is designed to be a national resource on academic integrity and student ethical development. Our focus is on offering demanding, individually reviewed and evaluated seminars of varied design for high school, college and graduate/professional students. Students are usually assigned to us by referring educational institutions. Once completed, seminar evaluations are then shared with the student and the referring institution. See our Frequently Asked Questions page for additional information.

The origins of the academic integrity seminar can be found in the "modified honor codes" developed by the University of Maryland, the University of California at Davis, and Kansas State University (among others) in the 1990s. Click here for a brief overview.

See also, McCabe and Pavela, "Some Good News About Academic Integrity" Change (September/October 2000, p. 32). We have been involved in the design, implementation, and grading of academic integrity seminars for over fifteen years.

Beyond our seminars, however, we want this website to be a source of valuable (and free) information about the connection between academic integrity, good teaching, and student ethical development. We suggest you explore the links on the left to review the materials available. Your comments, suggestions, and additions are always welcome.

Astute visitors to this site will immediately identify the classical figures on our masthead. Plato and Aristotle were properly depicted by Raphael in his wonderful "School of Athens" as former teacher and student who developed a lifelong friendship in the pursuit of truth. That spirit--friendship, intellectual curiosity, and dialogue about how a good and worthy life might be defined--forms the core of our work. See the Who We Are tab to learn more about us.

To get started, we recommend that you read the 15 Principles for the Design of College Ethical Development Programs, which is designed to provide a broad overview of how student ethical development programming might be conceived and undertaken. The ideas expressed here form the philosophical core of what students enrolled in our seminars will be asked to explore.

-- Gary Pavela, Don McCabe, and DeForest McDuff